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Open & Connected Learning
This document discusses how networks and new technologies are changing learning. It notes that knowledge is now abundant and free online, learning is increasingly social and visible, and networks enable new forms of collaboration. Weak ties and open sharing of ideas can spark innovation. The document provides examples of how YouTube, social media, and memes spread information and new literacies like network literacy are important. It emphasizes making the learning process visible and contributing to others' learning through open sharing.
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- 1. Open And ConnectedLearning Leveraging Networks for Learning Dr. Alec Couros At Michigan State University October 27, 2012
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- 12. “The Open Scholaris someone who makes their intellectual processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it -- at any stage of its development.” (Burton, G., 2009)
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- 16. “in 2007 YouTubeconsumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000” “72 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.” “More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”
- 17. significant shifts atoms <---> bits scarcity <---> abundance consuming <---> creating individuals <---> networks control <---> freedom
- 18. current context -new affordances tools, content, networks
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- 20. Toward a MobileReality Early Days of PCs in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
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- 30. shifts in edtech Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism (Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning
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- 35. Informal Learning • “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.” • George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
- 39. “Today knowledge isfree. It’s like air, it’s like water... There’s no competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” (2012) @drtonywagner
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- 42. Six Degrees ofSeparation “the idea that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from another person in the world.”
- 44. “Chance favors theconnected mind” ~ Stephen Johnson @npyrini @elenelli
- 45. Strength of WeakTies “There is strength in weak ties. Our acquaintances, not our friends, are potentially our greatest source of new ideas and information.” (paraphrased from Gladwell, 2010)
- 46. Where Good IdeasCome From “The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” (Steven Johnson, 2010)
- 47. networks 1. mechanism: enable communication & collaboration in ways that were once impossible. 2. inspiration: connect us to new ideas & expand our thinking & potential for innovation. * ‘us’ meaning those who are increasingly literate
- 48. inspirations & possibilities valueof free, weak ties, visible learning
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- 50. “Gift cultures areadaptations not to scarcity but to abundance .... In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control, but by what you give away. (1997) @esrtweet
- 52. “For Unleashing theIdeavirus, Godin released the entire eBook on the Internet for free, which led to eventual publishing deals in 41 countries and a public speaking career.”
- 59. “the song intentionallylacked a copyright so that people would be encouraged to create their own online parodies, in essence their own "XYZ Style"”
- 61. 21st Century LearningNetworks
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- 67. Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010) Howard Rheingold
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- 81. memes “The gene hasit’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus” Lowenstein, 1999
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- 86. “To run forpresident in the age of the Internet is to risk your words, your image and - most importantly - your mistakes, will be photoshopped clipped, edited, remixed and remastered online in the form of a viral meme.”
- 88. “...for all the money,tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one is, someone is watching and recording.” Zack Whitaker
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- 100. “To answer yourquestion, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I consider it my ‘main’ teacher.” “10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping (the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
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- 102. how are youmaking learning visible?
- 103. how are youcontributing to the learning of others?
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- 109. cMOOC pedagogy reliesheavily on gift economies, weak ties, participatory culture & making learning visible
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- 116. “I was ableto go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with everyone.” “The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built, it never has to end.”
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- 126. “Don’t limit achild to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa